WHAT'S GOING ON (as 2016 comes to a close)

You'll hear Punked up Xmas tunes all week long on KJRW, as we continue our stay Under the Covers this winter.

We are currently at about 60% of our listening goal for the month of December.  There are less than 2 weeks left of the month.  Please help us increase listening by New Year's!

WHAT'S GOING ON (At the Beginning of our 7th Year)

KJRW CELEBRATES 3 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

AS WE BEGIN OUR 7TH YEAR ONLINE

Keep KJRW online by listening.  Radionomy asks us for 40 more hours a day of listening in order for us to stay on.

A week into December, KJRW has gone undercover.  The Clash and Dead Kennedys both cover I Fought the Law.  A Perfect Circle covers John Lennon.  Cage the Elephant covers the Talking Heads.  Devo covers the Rolling Stones.  Foo Fighters cover Prince.  Green Day covers the Kinks.  Nirvana covers Bowie.  The Offspring cover the Ramones.  Rage Against the Machine covers Bob Dylan.  Red Hot Chili Peppers cover Stevie Wonder.  Smashing Pumpkins cover Fleetwood Mac.  Stone Temple Pilots cover Led Zeppelin.  All this and more, all winter long.  Get Under the Covers with KJRW.

And this Monday, KJRW declares war on Christmas!  Listen for punk rock holiday themed songs sprinkled into the mix through the 25th.

WHAT'S GOING ON (At the end of November)

KJRW begins its 7th year online on December 1st by getting Under the Covers!  Punk Bands covering Pop songs!  Punk Bands covering other Punk bands!

But how long will we stay online??  Radionomy will be checking our listening time again soon.  Right now, we are at 90% of the required hours.  Be sure to tune in today so that KJRW will still be around tomorrow!

It's Last Monday of the Month.  KJRW provides the picture round at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.  It's FREE to play.  Join us where California meets Oregon in West Seattle.

Thanks for listening in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Macedonia, Hungary, Mexico, Spain, Estonia, Italy, U.K., Australia, Thailand and Argentina.

Get Under the Covers with KJRW starting this Thursday, and all winter long...

WHAT'S GOING ON (in the middle of December)

Midway through December, KJRW is back in the top 20% of the stations streaming on Live365.com.  People are spending more time with us, listening to all the cover tunes.  Your favorite songs currently are:

1. All I Want - Offspring
2. Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
3. Imagine - A Perfect Circle
4. Come On, Let's Go - Girl in a Coma
5. Scoff - Nirvana
6. Friend to Friend in Endtime - Lungfish
7. Ghost Town - Specials
8. Porch - Pearl Jam
9. Clampdown - Clash
10. Plowed - Sponge

Watch this space for the big list of all your favorite songs of the year, the Top 115 of 2015 later this month.  KJRW adds Punk Rock Christmas tunes to the mix this week.  

FYI, since Last Monday falls between Christmas and New Year's this month, our guest round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz is postponed until Monday, January 4, 2016.

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of December)

We're a week into December and KJRW has been Under the Covers.  There were 500 visits to the station page this week.  There are back-to-back Joan Jett songs on your favorite song list this week, which makes our Jetthead Program Director happy.  There are also a couple cover songs.  Maybe there will be more next time.

1. Scoff - Nirvana
2. Plowed - Sponge
3. Porch - Pearl Jam
4. Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
5. I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are - Runaways
6. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
7. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Wild Thing - X
9. 1 2 X U - Wire
10. Fell in Love with a Girl - White Stripes

KJRW Declares War on Christmas later this month!  

Get Under the Covers with KJRW all winter long!

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the Beginning of Our 6th Year)

Hello and welcome to December, the beginning of KJRW's 6th year online!  We launched 5 years ago with the Presidents of the U.S.A.'s cover of the MC5's Kick Out the Jams.  Consequently, we kick out our 6th year with covers.  It's our most popular feature, so we're starting it early.  Get Under the Covers with KJRW all winter long!

All Request Fall came to a close as November and our 5th year online ended.  The most requested songs in November were:

1. Special - Garbage
2. When You Find Out - Nerves
3. Song 2 - Blur
4. I Only Fucked You As A Joke - Childbirth
5. Communist Eyes - Germs
6. Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
7. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
8. Celebrity Skin - Hole
9. Straight Ahead - Pennywise
10. N.W.O. - Ministry
11. Suburban Home - Descendents
12. Clampdown - Clash
13. 1 2 X U - Wire
14. What Love Is - Dead Boys
15. Breathe - Prodigy

KJRW's rank on Live365 went up because people spent more time listening to the station than they had in the previous month.  There were over 18 hundred visits to the station page in November.  People listened the most in:

1. U.S.A.
2. Czech Republic
3. Canada
4. Switzerland
5. Mexico
6. Colombia
7. Spain
8. Venezuela
9. Italy
10. Japan

Inside the U.S., listening was tops in:

1. Seattle, WA
2. San Francisco, CA
3. El Paso, TX
4. Albany, NY
5. Philadelphia, PA
6. Detroit, MI
7. Kansas City, MO
8. Austin, TX
9. Chicago, IL
10. Louisville, KY

Please help us start out our 6th year strong with a donation. KJRW is totally listener-supported.  We do not receive any money from the ads you hear on the station.  All the ad money goes to Live365.
And tell a friend about KJRW.  They'll thank you... or punch you.  We think it's worth the risk.

WHAT'S GOING ON (in the middle of December)

We're halfway through December and have had almost as many visits to the station page as in the whole month of November.  Our rank among all the stations on Live365 has been climbing this past week.  Your current favorite songs on KJRW are:

1. Spoonman - Soundgarden
2. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
3. Cannonball - Breeders
4. Rise - Public Image Ltd.
5. Rise Above - Black Flag
6. Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones
7. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
8. Corona - Minutemen
9. Lies - Greenhornes
10. Santa Monica - Everclear

The Top 114 Songs of 2014 will be posted soon.  Happy Chanukah!

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of December)

KJRW's fifth year online has begun with lots of 90's Alternative Rock.  A couple hundred streams were launched in the first week of December.  We were made a favorite station a handful of times.  And there are lots more twitter followers.  Your current favorite songs on KJRW are:

1. Cannonball - Breeders
2. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
3. Spoonman - Soundgarden
4. Corona - Minutemen
5. You - Candlebox
6. Rise Above - Black Flag
7. Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones
8. Santa Monica - Everclear
9. Glycerine - Bush
10. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus

Listen for Punk Rock Christmas tunes soon on KJRW...

DECEMBER YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM CHILD

During December, listening was highest in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, France, Mexico, U.K., Denmark, Spain, Philippines and Hungary.  Inside the U.S., people listened the most in Alabama, Washington, California, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arkansas.

There were more visits to the KJRW page on Live365.com in December than in the previous month.  The average amount of time people spent listening was up a tiny bit also.  However, the number of streams launched was the lowest of the entire fall season.

Please make sure your version of flash player is up to date so you can listen to KJRW.  We had one listener tell us that she could see all the great songs that were playing on the station, and was frustrated to not be able to hear them because her software was not upgraded on her computer.

We started December playing back the Top 113 of 2013.  It was the first month of our fourth year online.  Onward and upward, we say!

January is Dive Under the Covers month on KJRW.  Please push 'play'.

A LONG DECEMBER

On December 2nd, KJRW reached its highest rank ever among the thousands of stations on Live365.com.  It was all downhill from there.  We went off the listening cliff.  Time spent listening in December was half of what it was in November.  But, November was huge.  It was the best month KJRW enjoyed in the two years it has been online.  However, December did top November in the number of times the station page was visited and how many people made KJRW a preset station (that is like when you assign a button on your car radio to a certain station).

Here are the countries that are still listening to KJRW:

• U.S.
• Canada
• S. Africa
• Australia
• Brazil
• Germany
• Italy
• Slovenia
• Mexico
• Slovak Republic

Tops in listening inside the U.S. are:

• California
• Washington
• Illinois
• Alabama
• Ohio
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Michigan
• North Carolina
• Colorado

KJRW has just begun its third year on Live365.com and hopes for more months like November, when people spent over twelve hundred hours listening to the station.  Songs are being added to the mix every week.  Your suggestions are always appreciated at kjrw@comcast.net.  If you like what you hear on KJRW, please spread the word.  Have a great 2013!

TOP TEN

A couple Christmas songs make it onto the last list of December.  Here are the ten most popular tracks on KJRW this week:

1. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
2. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
3. Infected - Bad Religion
4. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
5. Jingle Bells - X
6. Wrong Way - Sublime
7. Return of the Rat - Wipers
8. We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Weezer
9. Waiting Room - Fugazi
10. Unity - Operation Ivy

Wanna hear your favorite song on KJRW?  E-mail it to kjrw@comcast.net.

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

If the Mayans were correct, this may be the last countdown we ever hear.  And it will be a good one.  The Top 112 of 2012 begins December 1st - the start of KJRW's third year on Live365.com.

Countdowns are kind of a media year end tradition - a way to tie up the past year in a little bow and present it as a gift for the holidays.  Back in 1999, the program director of Seattle's One and Only Classic Rock Station decided it would be a good idea to countdown the 1,000 best Classic Rock songs of all time.  We all agreed this would be a great way to celebrate the new millennium.  We would reach number one on New Year's Day, provided we were still on the air after Y2K shut down all the computers.  For some reason, the Classic Rock Station still does the thousand song countdown every year between Christmas and New Year's.  The songs are all the same, and Stairway to Heaven is always number one.

KJRW's Top 112 of 2012 is not a rehash of the same old songs.  It is not even the same as the Top 111 of 2011.  For starters, it goes to 112, that's one higher.  (This is Spinal Tap reference)  Nirvana had the most songs on the list last year, but this year only have two.  We would be willing to bet at least half the songs on this year's list were not on last year's, and the ones that do make a return trip are not at the same rank.  The Top 112 is not your typical list of the top punk songs, either.  Surprisingly, there's no Dead Kennedys, Replacements, Minor Threat nor Misfits, and only one Sex Pistols song. 

Now that we have said what the Top 112 of 2012 is not, let us tell you what it is.  This compilation is made up of the songs that were in the Top Ten lists this year because they got the thumbs up from KJRW listeners.  We sat here and counted all of them.  Some of the results were very unexpected.  But what you can expect to hear is the Ramones, Clash, Pretenders, Soundgarden, White Stripes, Strokes and more.

The Top 112 of 2012 starts Saturday on KJRW.  http://www.live365.com/stations/member_10222739915?play=1 
The full list will be posted here soon. 

JUNIOR

This time last year, KJRW held a fund drive to raise the subscription price of another year on Live365.com.  That sophomore year is near its end.

Back in June, when the KJRW studio was ripped apart due to sewer damage, Seattle Listener Ava sent us a Live365 gift card to pay for next year's subscription!

KJRW begins its third year online December 1st with the Top 112 of 2012!  A countdown of all the songs you gave the "thumbs up" over the past year.

Thank you for listening to KJRW and telling your friends to listen, too!  You can still help at www.gofundme.com/KJRW-WestSeattle.